Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC) today announced the
availability of low-cost, easy-to-use evaluation kits for its Power
Architecture® 405EX
and 405EXr processors. To accelerate customers' system development time,
AMCC's new evaluation kits provide users with a comprehensive set of
resources including custom-designed evaluation boards, industry-standard
software development tools, sample applications, system-level benchmarks
and hardware design files. The kits allow customers to perform
comprehensive evaluations of the 405EX and 405EXr processors, use the
baseline hardware/software designs as a starting-point for their own
product development and initiate their system software development using
the kits as the target platforms.

The 405EX evaluation kit named "Kilauea" and the 405EXr evaluation kit
named "Haleakala" join the family of eight previously introduced,
easy-to-use AMCC evaluation kits, which include the Taihu 405EP kit, the
Acadia 405EZ kit, the Yosemite 440EP kit, the Sequoia 440EPx kit, the
Yellowstone 440GR kit, the Rainier 440GRx kit, the Taishan 440GX kit and
the Katmai 440SPe kit. AMCC's extensive range of PowerPC®
evaluation kits is based on clear objectives to provide customers with
easy-to-use platforms for processor evaluation and software development.
Each of the kits can be set up in 15 minutes or less, facilitated by a
clear, step-by-step Getting Started guide and user-friendly
configuration software. The 405EX and 405EXr evaluation kits are based
on the same user-friendly concepts as the rest of the family, while
adding new software utilities designed to further enhance customers'
evaluation experiences.

The two new kits contain evaluation boards designed for AMCC by Beijing
UD Technology Co., Ltd. (UDTech). The boards are configured with the
Linux® operating
system, provided by DENX Software Engineering Gmbh (Denx), but also
provide the flexibility to load and run other PowerPC-compatible
embedded operating systems. Schematics and layout files for the board
are provided free-of-charge via AMCC’s website
so customers can start their designs from a proven baseline. The 405EX
Kilauea board, with a 7" x 7" form factor, includes an AMCC 405EX
processor operating at a clock frequency of 600MHz. Other hardware
features include 256MBytes of DDR2 SDRAM, 64MBytes of NOR Flash,
64MBytes of NAND flash, two 10/100/1G Ethernet ports, one Micro-B USB
2.0 host/device port, two PCI-Express connectors, two serial ports, two
RJ11 connectors, a JTAG connector and a trace connector. The NOR flash
image includes Linux (2.6 kernel) and U-Boot boot firmware, both
provided by Denx, along with a file system that incorporates a range of
AMCC-developed sample applications, benchmarks and utilities.

The 405EXr Haleakala board includes an AMCC 405EX processor running at
533MHz, a single 10/100/1G Ethernet port and a single PCI-Express
connector, but is otherwise identical to the 405EX Kilauea board.

“We are proud to have developed the Kilauea
and Haleakala evaluation kits for AMCC,” said
John Liu, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at UDTech. “We
believe that these kits will enable AMCC's customers accelerate their
time-to-market and we are pleased to have developed these high-quality
products on the aggressive schedule that AMCC required.”

“Many of our customers have selected AMCC
processors because of AMCC's comprehensive, low-cost evaluation kits
that make it so easy for them to evaluate the platform,”
said John Weber, Technology Specialist for embedded processors at
Avnet-Memec. “Our customers need a
straightforward, painless way to check out a new processor and then
start their software development. We expect the 405EX Kilauea kit and
the 405EXr Haleakala kit to enable us to secure many more AMCC design
wins.”

“We are excited to introduce these two new
evaluation kits as part of our overall goal of improving our customers'
experience as they evaluate our processors and then start their own
product development,” said Charlie Ashton,
Director of Software at AMCC. “The 405EX and
405EXr evaluation kits retain the key concepts of our previously
introduced kits that have already been proven popular with customers.
405EX and 405EXr customers will be able to move quickly through the
evaluation phase, start their hardware design based on a proven baseline
and start their software development before their own target hardware is
ready. We are delighted that UDTech has produced two more evaluation
kits for us on challenging schedules, following the 405EP Taihu kit and
440GX Taishan kit that they developed in 2005 and 2006. We value our
relationship with UDTech and look forward to further collaboration with
them in the future.”

To assist with the processor evaluation phase, the Resource CDs included
in the kits contain industry-standard benchmarks for use in processor
performance analysis, such as TTCP, DBench, HINT®,
STREAM and MPEG-4. These benchmarks allow customers to perform a
detailed analysis of the processor’s
performance using standard metrics without having to acquire and
configure the benchmarks themselves. Also included is a custom security
benchmarking environment that measures the performance of the on-chip
security engine on standard security algorithms. Once customers progress
to the software development phase and before their own target hardware
(prototype board) is available, the Resource CD offers a wide range of
sample applications that can be used as a starting-point for customers’
software applications, as well as various utilities to aid in system
configuration. The sample applications include a web server, telnet
server, FTP server and example game, while the utilities provide a
detailed configuration report on the board as well as utilities for
setting the IP address and MAC ID.

The 405EX and 405EXr evaluation kits are configured with the Linux
operating system (2.6 kernel) along with U-Boot boot firmware, both
provided by Denx. Customers can also load and run other
PowerPC-compatible embedded operating systems available from AMCC's
partners. Schematics and layout files for the board are provided free of
charge via AMCC's website so that customers can start their designs from
a proven baseline. The Linux code and U-Boot code (both source code and
executables) are available from Denx via links on AMCC's website.

To assist customers in selecting the optimum development environment for
their 405EX and 405EXr based projects, software tools CDs from
industry-leading suppliers such as Denx and Corelis, Inc. are included
in the kit.

Pricing and Availability

AMCC’s 405EX and 405EXr evaluation kits will
be available in December and may be ordered from AMCC or any authorized
distributor using part numbers EV-KIT-405EX-01 and EV-KIT-405EXr-01. The
suggested distributor resale price is $750. For more information, please
contact your local AMCC sales office at http://www.amcc.com/Sales/.

About AMCC

AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport,
and store digital information for the world's wired and wireless
networks. As a leading supplier of Power Architecture™
based processors and with world-class expertise in SONET and Ethernet
protocol processing and PHY technology, our products are the foundation
of the IP Communications Revolution. For further information regarding
AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com.

About Beijing UD Technology Co., Ltd. (UDTech)

UDTech is a dedicated development service provider and product solution
supplier on digitalized broadband networking and application products.
With rich experiences in the development on PowerPC and other
processors, audio and video DSP, it provides turn-key services including
solution provision, embedded software and hardware design and
development, and ODM with lower cost. For more information regarding
UDTech, please visit at http://www.udtechinc.com/en/.

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